[Air-L] International Symposium "The Secret Life of Objects".

[Andre Lemos]

Dear list members,

The International Symposium The Secret Life of Objects will take place in São Paulo, July 30th and 31th, and in Salvador, August 6th, as well. 

More information:

São Paulo - http://vidadosobjetos-pucsp.com.br/2012/
Salvador - http://avidasecretadosobjetos.wordpress.com/

Best

André Lemos


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> 	Life of Objects", Rio de Janeiro, August 2012
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> Dear list members,
> 
> the International Symposium ?The Secret Life of Objects: Materialities,
> Medialities, Temporalities? will take place in Rio de Janeiro, between
> August 1st and 3rd. Promoted by the State University of Rio de Janeiro,
> along with several other academic institutions (such as the Vilem Flusser
> Archiv and Universit?t Wien), the event is intended to debate the emergence
> of new paradigms, epistemologies and intellectual scenarios within the
> Humanities (see the abstract bellow). The keynote speaker will be the
> French sociologist Bruno Latour and several other participants have already
> confirmed their presence (Graham Harman, Siegfried Zielinski, Joachim
> Paech, Richard Grusin, Steven Shaviro, Ian Bogost etc.). The event is free
> and open to the public. Enrollment is possible trough our website
> http://vidadosobjetos/inscricao. The form is in Portuguese, but it?s very
> easy to fill out:
> 
> 
> 
> Nome (name)
> 
> CPF (don?t bother that, something like a social security number)
> 
> Email
> 
> Profiss?o (Profession)
> 
> Institui??o (Institution)
> 
> Cidade/Estado (City/State)
> 
> Link para Redes Sociais (Link for social networks)
> 
> 
> 
> Erick Felinto (President) - UERJ
> 
> Adalberto M?ller ? UFF/Letras
> 
> Andr? Lemos - UFBA
> 
> Fernanda Bruno - UFRJ
> 
> L?cia Santaella - PUCSP
> 
> Maur?cio Lissovsky - UFRJ
> 
> Simone de S? - UFF
> 
> Vinicius Andrade Pereira - UERJ
> 
> 
> 
> Abstract: There are strong indications that a significant transformation is
> underway in the so-called ?human sciences? (Geisteswissenschaften, sciences
> humaines, Humanities). After a period of intense crisis and uncertainty, in
> which human sciences have frequently sought to mirror or approach the hard
> sciences, the beginning of the twenty-first century seems to witness a
> broad renewal of disciplines, approaches and methodologies. From the
> questioning of its traditional foundations, humanities are reinventing
> themselves by a broad reconfiguration of its borders and even of the notion
> of ?humanity? that served as its cornerstone. One of the areas where the
> wealth of this new scenario is most clearly displayed is that of media
> studies. Spurred by the impact of new digital technologies, media studies
> cleverly learned to appropriate the epistemological principles and major
> theoretical issues that have come to characterize the contemporary cultural
> scene. The objective of the Seminar "The Secret Life of Objects:
> Medialities, Materialities, Temporalities" is to sketch a systematization
> of this scenario from a transdisciplinary perspective, but with a decisive
> focus on communication studies and culture. The three axes that structure
> the Seminar represent articulating knots that cut across different
> disciplines in the humanities, from sociology to philosophy, but acquire
> special meaning in the context of new media studies. The underlying
> assumption is that we need to radically rethink the notion of epistemic
> agency in a context where the action and the impact of the objects, media
> and technological materialities become increasingly important. Thus, it is
> not only necessary to investigate the place of human actors in a world
> enriched by the life of polymorphic objects, but also to highlight the
> issues that the strong tradition of hermeneutics of the humanities have
> often obscured: what, without constituting meaning per se, contributes
> nonetheless to the production of meaning? What is a medium and how
> mediation processes unfold? In what ways does technological materiality
> inform cultural worlds and determine forms of cognition? What new models of
> historical research of techniques and culture are emerging within the
> current epistemological paradigms? In what ways is the material dimension
> of experience combined with the intangible dimensions of culture? What does
> it mean to purport an ?object-oriented? philosophy? In what sense does the
> category of the human reconfigure itself in light of our new relations with
> objects and nonhuman entities? How important is the legacy of the genealogy
> and archeology of knowledge (Nietzsche, Foucault) to a perspectivization of
> the impacts of "new" digital culture? By means of interdisciplinary panels,
> in which philosophers, anthropologists and scientists will discuss with
> experts in media studies, we intend to address these issues in order to
> elaborate a preliminary cartography of an epistemological territory still
> in its early stages of exploration.
> 
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